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The Game by Jack London (Illustrated)
The Game by Jack London (Illustrated)
The Game by Jack London (Illustrated)
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The Game by Jack London (Illustrated)

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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Game’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Jack London’.

Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of London includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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LanguageEnglish
PublisherPublishdrive
Release dateJul 17, 2017
ISBN9781786561732
The Game by Jack London (Illustrated)
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Jack London

Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876, and was a prolific and successful writer until his death in 1916. During his lifetime he wrote novels, short stories and essays, and is best known for ‘The Call of the Wild’ and ‘White Fang’.

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    The Game by Jack London (Illustrated) - Jack London

    The Complete Works of

    JACK LONDON

    VOLUME 6 OF 57

    The Game

    Parts Edition

    By Delphi Classics, 2014

    Version 3

    COPYRIGHT

    ‘The Game’

    Jack London: Parts Edition (in 57 parts)

    First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

    © Delphi Classics, 2017.

    All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

    ISBN: 978 1 78656 173 2

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    Hastings, East Sussex

    United Kingdom

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    Jack London: Parts Edition

    This eBook is Part 6 of the Delphi Classics edition of Jack London in 57 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The Game from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Jack London, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

    Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Jack London or the Complete Works of Jack London in a single eBook.

    Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

    JACK LONDON

    IN 57 VOLUMES

    Parts Edition Contents

    The Novels

    1, The Cruise of the Dazzler

    2, A Daughter of the Snows

    3, The Call of the Wild

    4, The Kempton-Wace Letters

    5, The Sea-Wolf

    6, The Game

    7, White Fang

    8, Before Adam

    9, The Iron Heel

    10, Martin Eden

    11, Burning Daylight

    12, Adventure

    13, Smoke Bellew

    14, The Scarlet Plague

    15, A Son of the Sun

    16, The Abysmal Brute

    17, The Valley of the Moon

    18, The Mutiny of the Elsinore

    19, The Star Rover

    20, The Jacket

    21, The Little Lady of the Big House

    22, Jerry of the Islands

    23, Michael, Brother of Jerry

    24, Hearts of Three

    The Short Stories

    25, The Complete Short Stories

    The Plays

    26, Theft

    27, The Acorn-Planter

    28, A Wicked Woman

    29, The Birth Mark

    30, The First Poet

    31, The Return of Ulysses: A Modern Version

    The Poetry

    32, The Complete Poems

    The Memoirs

    33, The Road

    34, John Barleycorn

    The Non-Fiction

    35, The People of the Abyss

    36, War of the Classes

    37, How I Became a Socialist

    38, Revolution and Other Essays

    39, The Cruise of the Snark

    40, What Communities Lose by the Competitive System

    41, The Human Drift

    42, The Story of an Eyewitness

    43, Editorial Crimes – a Protest

    44, The Future of War

    45, Mexico’s Army and Ours

    46, A Letter to Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

    47, A Letter to Woman’s Home Companion

    48, Phenomena of Literary Evolution

    49, Again the Literary Aspirant

    50, The Red Game of War

    51, With Funston’s Men

    52, Stalking the Pestilence

    53, The Trouble Makers of Mexico

    54, Lawgivers

    55, Our Adventures in Tampico

    56, Housekeeping in the Klondike

    The Biography

    57, Book of Jack London by Charmian London

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    The Game

    This novel was first published in 1906.  The novel deals with the theme of boxing, one of London’s passionate interests.  The Game is one of the most powerful and evocative portraits ever given of prizefighters in the grip of their fervor.

    London’s mother, who was a music teacher and a spiritualist

    CONTENTS

    CHAPTER I

    CHAPTER II

    CHAPTER III

    CHAPTER IV

    CHAPTER V

    CHAPTER VI

    CHAPTER I

    Many patterns of carpet lay rolled out before them on the floor — two of Brussels showed the beginning of their quest, and its ending in that direction; while a score of ingrains lured their eyes and prolonged the debate between desire pocket-book.  The head of the department did them the honor of waiting upon them himself — or did Joe the honor, as she well knew, for she had noted the open-mouthed awe of the elevator boy who brought them up.  Nor had she been blind to the marked respect shown Joe by the urchins and groups of young fellows on corners, when she walked with him in their own neighborhood down at the west end of the town.

    But the head of the department was called away to the telephone, and in her mind the splendid promise of the carpets and the irk of the pocket-book were thrust aside by a greater doubt and anxiety.

    But I don’t see what you find to like in it, Joe, she said softly, the note of insistence in her words betraying recent and unsatisfactory discussion.

    For a fleeting moment a shadow darkened his boyish face, to be replaced by the glow

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